BOOKS

The Hour of Bad Decisions

The Hour of Bad Decisions, Wangersky’s first collection of short stories, deals with the way that humans, left to their own devices during dark nights of the soul, make rationalize all sorts of bad choices. Scandinavians refer to the hour of the wolf: as filmmaker Ingmar Bergman described it, “'The hour of the wolf is the hour between night and dawn. It is the hour when most people die, when sleep is the deepest, when nightmares feel most real. It is the hour when the demons are most powerful.”

Burning Down the House

Burning Down the House is a riveting account of his experiences dealing with human tragedy and his own resulting trauma as a volunteer firefighter.

The Glass Harmonica

The Glass Harmonica explores how the residents of a changing St. John's neighbourhood view their lives, one another and the events, complicated and tender, that bind them together.

Danny Williams: A Profile

Danny Williams: A Profile - A photographic profile and accompanying essay on former Newfoundland and Labrador premier Danny Williams.

Whirl Away

Whirl Away, a short story collection that was a finalist for the ScotiaBank/Giller Prize, examines the way lives fall apart, despite the efforts of its characters to hold all the pieces together.

Walt

Walt is a psychological thriller about a grocery store cleaner who uses found shopping lists, and the personal details they contain, for his own dark purposes.

The Path of Most Resistance

Wangersky’s third collection of short stories, The Path of Most Resistance, is an examination of the ways everyday people end up finding themselves solving problems in convoluted ways that make sense only to themselves. And sometimes, not even to themselves.